Mr. Cunningham

Mr. Cunningham (left) with his son Alec Cunningham (Harper's Weekly, 17 june 1893)

Fictional character.

In the Sherlock Holmes stories

• Mr. Cunningham, a Justice of the Peace, was the father of Alec Cunningham (REIG 45).

• He was living with his son in a large Queen Anne house near Reigate (REIG 193).

• He was numbed and dazed, with a heavy, sullen expression upon his strongly marked face (REIG 326).

• With his son, he burglarized Mr. Acton's house to find legal documents (REIG 411).

• They attacked Sherlock Holmes when he was searching Alec's dressing-gown for the missing part of the note (REIG 317).

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